Acraea encedana, the encedana acraea or Pierre's acraea, is a butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. It is found in Senegal, Gambia, Burkina Faso, Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Benin, Nigeria, Angola, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Sudan, Ethiopia, Kenya, Tanzania, Malawi, Zambia and Mozambique.[3] The habitat consists of open areas near swampy ground.
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Nymphalidae |
| Genus: | Acraea |
| Species: | A. encedana
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Adults feed on the flowers of Tridax species.
The larvae feed on Desmodium salicifolium.
Mimicry edit
A. encendana is a Müllerian mimic of another butterfly which occurs in Uganda, Danaus chrysippus.[4]
Taxonomy edit
It is a member of the Acraea encedon species group.but see also Pierre & Bernaud, 2014 [5]
References edit
- ^ Pierre, J. 1976. Un nouveau cas d’espèces jumelles chez un papillon mimétique, Acraea encedon (L.) (Lépidoptère Acraeidae). Compte Rendu Hebdomadaire des Séances de l’Academie des Sciences, Paris (Sér. D) 282 (8): 731-734.
- ^ "Acraea Fabricius, 1807" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
- ^ "Afrotropical Butterflies: Nymphalidae - Tribe Acraeini". Archived from the original on 2012-08-10. Retrieved 2012-06-05.
- ^ Smith, David AS; Owen, Denis F; Gordon, Ian J; Owiny, Agoroachai M (September 1993). "Heredity - Abstract of article: Polymorphism and evolution in the butterfly Danaus chrysippus (L.) (Lepidoptera: Danainae)". Heredity. 71 (3): 242–251. doi:10.1038/hdy.1993.132. ISSN 0018-067X.
- ^ Pierre & Bernau, 2014 Classification et Liste Synonymique des Taxons du Genre Acraea pdf
External links edit
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Acraea encedana.
Wikispecies has information related to Acraea encedana.
- Acraea encedana Le Site des Acraea de Dominique Bernaud
- Acraea encedana Image collection Dominique Bernaud
- Acraea encedana Archived 2020-01-27 at the Wayback Machine at Pteron
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